http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_8#Accelerators
Kind of like Apple's 'data detectors' (http://macbiblioblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/apple-data-detectors-are-so-useful.html
), which cause magic pop-up menus to show up when you mouse over
things that look like dates, phone numbers, addresses, etc.
IMO, they are all 'after the fact' attempts to implement presentation
types. The UI which jams an icon in your face is really just
marketing. I would be much happier if, rather than "advertising", I
could make a gesture (isn't this what context menus are for) to ask if
there were additional actions I could make. I think the LispM had
something like that, didn't hyper-super-meta-middle list all available
gestures? :P
On 2009-07-30, at 12:46EDT, Henry Minsky wrote:
I was just testing a DHTML app in IE8, and noticed a weird icon that
appears in the page when you select a block of text.
It is apparently a 'helpful' new feature of IE8, which is that they
have a
list of 'accelerators' which are available
when you select text, such as "email this", or "search on
Microsoft's search
engine", you get the idea.
The big question is whether there is any way to disable this from
the app.
Hopefully there will be enough
disgust from the browser user community that this will be disabled by
default. .They never learn ...
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Henry Minsky
Software Architect
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